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Film Review: Soul Surfer (PG) * * *

SURFING movies are hard to make because of the difficulties involved with filming.Read

Film Review: Tucker & Dale vs Evil (15) * * * and Villain (15) * * *

THIS genre-twisting horror film will be perfect for anyone seeking a low-budget thriller to watch on a Friday night. It’s only showing at AMC Broadway Plaze and Showcase Erdington but it has far more going for it than last week’s limited release of the abominable You Instead.Read

FILM REVIEW: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15) ++++

as Toby Esterhase (Bernard Hepton).Read

FILM REVIEW: Jane Eyre (PG) ***

MUCH has been made of the pressure Gary Oldman must have felt following Sir Alec Guinness in the remake of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.Read

Film Review: You instead (15) No stars!

I FELT sorry for film director David Mackenzie when he told me in 2003 how production on The Last Great Wilderness – which should then have been his breakthrough movie – had been badly hit by the foot and mouth crisis. Nightmare.Read

FILM REVIEW: 30 Minutes or Less (15) **

YOU have to wonder sometimes what makes actors sign on the dotted line.Read

BOLLYWOOD: Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (12A) ***

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (12A)Read

FILM REVIEW: I Don't Know How She Does It (12A) **

SARAH Jessica Parker’s new movie wins two stars – only because women of a certain age will enjoy its comfort zone without being offended by the modern rage for vulgarity as in Jennifer Aniston’s lamentable Horrible Bosses.Read

WALK IN THE PARK: Ryton Pools Country Park, A445, Coventry CV8 3BH

WHEN Visit England published details of the region’s leading attractions last month, there were no surprises at the top of the list.Read

Film Review: A Lonely Place to Die (15) * * *

IF YOU only see the first ten minutes of this film, you’ll still get your money’s worth.Read

Film Review: The Troll Hunter (15) * * *

EVEN for world cinema fans, Norwegian film-making is probably something of a black hole.Read

Film Review: Friends with Benefits (15) * * * *

ONCE upon a time when a boy and girl weren’t sure about each other, the whole premise of the film would be “will they, won’t they?”Read

Bollywood Film Review: Bol (15) * * * *

This Pakistani drama is based in Lahore.Read

Film Review: Colombiana (15) * * Apollo 18 (15) * * *

ANYONE who misses the opening which tells you this story begins in 1992 could be forgiven for thinking that it was an original 1980s’ flick.Read

Film Review: Kill List (18) No stars!

EVERY now and then when a film opens with a National Lottery symbol you just know that by the end you’ll be wondering why it hasn’t been bookended with a sign from the Devil instead.Read

Film Review: In A Better World (15) * * *

THERE’S no question that Susanne Bier is one of the world’s most respected female film directors.Read

Film Review: Fright Night (15) * * *

EVER since David Tennant left the Tardis behind, his Doctor Who fans have been waiting for him to fight monsters again.Read

Film Review: The Art of Getting By (12A) * *

FREDDIE Highmore is the baby-faced star of films like Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Spiderwick Chronicles.Read

Film Review: One Day (12A) ****

FED up with all of the foul- mouthed, gross-out Hollywood comedies and yearning for a drama which might actually mean something long after the end credits have rolled?Read

Film Review: Final Destination 5 3D (15) ***

THE big problem most cinema-goers probably have with the added expense of the 3D craze is that so few films are even trying to make the most of the added depth at critical times in a story.Read